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  • burgerchurgarr@lemmus.orgtoEurope@feddit.org•Why does Maga world hate Europe?English
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    2 days ago

    We’re to the left of the US but if you look around Europe, our parliaments and governments are full with right wing extremists. The so-called centrists are politically and rhetorically where today’s Nazis were 10-15 years ago (at least that’s how the Nazis presented themselves to the public while they still had to).

    Otherwise I do think your explanation makes sense.

  • burgerchurgarr@lemmus.orgtoEurope@feddit.org•Russia to Roll Out Digital Ruble in 2026, Enabling Full Control Over Citizens’ SpendingEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yeah you would. It depends on the exact implementation and luckily with so many countries involved there’s a lot less possibility to get consensus on privacy invasions, but from a technical perspective there’s nothing that stops the EU from later changing what they agreed upon now.

    So what this means is that you’ll have to trust the EU that

    1. they implement this how they say they will
    2. they won’t later change the system to use it for mass surveillance

    A proper replacement for cash is Monero. I know blockchain useless and crypto bad and all but that’s a real private digital currency where you’d have to be wanted by the CIA or Mossad to even face the threat of having your payments tracked.

  • burgerchurgarr@lemmus.orgtoEurope@feddit.org•Germany steps up to replace ‘unreliable’ US as guarantor of European securityEnglish
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    6 days ago

    No that was my personal take, and Germans can downvote me as much as they want but they’re a shitty neighbor and I don’t need them to show up as a “strong leader”. It seems to me that even the progressives there are mostly ignorant as to how seriously bad the current trajectory is, and they expect us to trust them?

    IMO centralized power is always bad but especially bad in a country that has a terrible fascist history and that seems to be repeating its mistakes while being offended by anyone who warns them about it because they still believe they learned their lesson and are now the main moral instance on combatting fascism.